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Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

G-Fafif Jan 05 2010 07:14 PM

Was watching 2009 remake of "Taking of Pelham 123" earlier, which was terrible EXCEPT for a cameo by a certain big blue stadium in the background of a speeding elevated train. Never mind that it was supposed to be the 6 roaring from 34th St. to Coney Island (which couldn't happen either, come to think of it). It was Shea, alive!

Frayed Knot Jan 05 2010 07:34 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

I saw the quickie Shea-shot too. So many things in that movie were out of place, passing Shea on a Manhattan to Brooklyn train ride was merely one of them.

bmfc1 Jan 05 2010 07:56 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

"Old Dogs", one of the worst reviewed movies of '09, has a Shea scene: http://blog.nj.com/mets/2009/11/disneys ... _an_o.html

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 05 2010 08:36 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

Have we ever created a list of Shea moments on film? I happened to have been in attendance while they shot scenes from Small-Time Crooks and Two Weeks Notice. Chop Shop practically starred the big girl.

metsguyinmichigan Jan 05 2010 08:38 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

Bang the Drum Slowly probably gave the yard the most screen time. Then you have Men in Black.

Edgy DC Jan 05 2010 08:47 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

I don't know if it's ever been an official list we've kept Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) Chop Shop (2007) Men in Black (2007) Odd Couple, The (1968) Old Dogs (2009) Small Time Crooks (2000) Taking of Pelham 123, The (2009) Two Weeks Notice (2002) Feel free to copy and add. Also, if you see fit, include the Mets who appeared. Let's stay away from TV shows and telefilms for now, I think.

soupcan Jan 05 2010 08:47 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

'Kiss Of Death' - the remake, with Nicolas Cage and David Caruso. [quote="The New York Times"]Jimmy winds up in prison after doing a fateful favor for Ronnie, whose garage near Shea Stadium doubles as a chop shop for stolen cars.

A few scenes in the Iron Triangle with The Big Shea in the background. Not a bad movie actually. Cast includes Helen Hunt, Samuel L. Jackson, Ving Rhames, Stanley Tucci, Kathryn Erbe & Michael Rappaport.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 05 2010 08:51 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

Can't leave out The Odd Couple, where a Mets triple play is incorporated into the story line. I was also at Shea for the game when Small Time Crooks was filmed (Dominican Heritage Night against the Cubs) but was unaware of the filming until JCL alerted me so, on this forum last year.

Edgy DC Jan 05 2010 08:53 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) metsguyinmichigan Chop Shop (2007) John Cougar Lunchbucket Kiss of Death (1995) soupcan Men in Black (2007) metsguyinmichigan Odd Couple, The (1968) Edgy DC Off Jackson Avenue (2008) Edgy DC Old Dogs (2009) bfmc1 Rosemary's Baby (1968) Edgy DC Small Time Crooks (2000) John Cougar Lunchbucket Taking of Pelham 123, The (2009) G-Fafif Two Weeks Notice (2002) John Cougar Lunchbucket

Edgy DC Jan 05 2010 08:55 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

A point of order --- in Game Six (2005) and Frequency (2000), Shea appears on television in the film. Count? No count?

soupcan Jan 05 2010 08:56 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

Counts! And in the same vein I believe there may have been a shot of Strawberry playing in a game at Shea on a TV at some point in 'Bad Lieutenant' during the fictional Mets-Dodgers playoff series that was a running them throughout that movie.

metsguyinmichigan Jan 05 2010 09:00 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

Don't forget "The Wiz." Many have tried.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 05 2010 09:03 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

[quote="Edgy DC"]Rosemary's Baby (1968) Edgy DC

Rosemary's Baby? When? I did not know this.

Kong76 Jan 05 2010 09:07 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

I liked the 123 movie for what it was ... my first blue-ray disc. That Shea thing, I stopped three times and told KB that it made no m f sense along with bunch of other things.

Edgy DC Jan 05 2010 09:11 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

I'll be honest, I was looking for Chop Shop, And I found Rosemary's Baby on a list of films at IMDB tagged with Shea-Stadium-New-York-City. I don't remember it either.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 05 2010 09:13 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

I thought I was going senile: Rosemary's Baby is one of my favorite movies -- I've watched it many times.

Edgy DC Jan 05 2010 09:22 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

[quote="Kong76"]I liked the 123 movie for what it was ... my first blue-ray disc. That Shea thing, I stopped three times and told KB that it made no m f sense along with bunch of other things.

I think Shea, even in her doddering years, was like a playful child and liked to jump into the background of scenes and hope nobody noticed.

Perhaps especially in her doddering years.

Ashie62 Jan 06 2010 02:48 AM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

[quote="metsguyinmichigan":2l3o2gmx]Bang the Drum Slowly probably gave the yard the most screen time. Then you have Men in Black.[/quote:2l3o2gmx] Bernard Gilkey had a ball drop on hid head in Men in Black

Ashie62 Jan 06 2010 02:55 AM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

DVD only the Beatles at Shea Stadium 1965 10 songs

G-Fafif Jan 06 2010 05:17 AM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

"Pelham," I guess, was Shea's second-to-last studio role, chronologically, with "Old Dogs" released later (and, judging on the "making of" for "Pelham," filmed a bit later). Outside the Big Budget realm, "Last Play at Shea," the Billy Joel concert film/Shea documentary is still in production, reliable sources tell me. A point of order --- in Game Six (2005) and Frequency (2000), Shea appears on television in the film. Count? No count? There was a wide shot of modern-day Shea plopped down in the middle of "Game Six," a small movie that deserved to be minuscule. In the underrated "BASEketball" (1998), an empty Shea is shown as an example of how fans have deserted professional sports. Despite displaying all kinds of wrong allegiances, Lord Tariq's music video "Deja Vu" (sampling Steely Dan's "Black Cow") filmed at Shea, available for viewing here.

metsguyinmichigan Jan 06 2010 07:40 AM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

If TV-within-movies is fair game, then you have to include "Fever Pitch" with Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore. Favorite scene: Fallon's on a depression bender, and his buddies barge in to find him in a daze, watching a loop of the Buckner/Mookie moment, mutteirng "Stanley didn't cover first..."

Benjamin Grimm Jan 06 2010 07:45 AM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

Pardon the interruption, but... What may be Shea's first comic book appearance was in 1971, in Fantastic Four 133: The Thing was to fight Thundra at Shea, and the battle started there but quickly moved to the Unisphere. The artist, Ramona Fradon, who later took over the art chores on the Brenda Starr newspaper strip, didn't spend any time trying to make her depiction of Shea look authentic. And now, back to our movie discussion...

Edgy DC Jan 06 2010 07:54 AM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

Maybe another thread. We can add my crappy "Amazin' Mets" comic to that one and the one or two "Spider-Man" books where Shea appears. But I think it's best to not dump all media in one thread.

G-Fafif Jan 06 2010 02:29 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

At the risk of violating thread sanctity, I was given a pretty sweet Baseball Superstars Comics for my birthday. Cover is somebody drawn to kind of look like Darryl Strawberry. Been given Nolan Ryan, Dwight Gooden and, for reasons known best to my comic-collecting/baseball-oblivious brother-in-law, Los Angeles Dodger editions in the past. They're quite engaging, in their own semi-accurate way. The Sign Man makes a cameo, even.

Edgy DC Jan 06 2010 02:32 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

Not at all. Violate. That kind of looks like Darryl crossed with Willie Mays.

G-Fafif Jan 06 2010 02:35 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

Spoiler alert... The most important lesson of all, as Darryl now knows, is that all the superstar status in the world is only an empty honor -- unless you're also happy.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 06 2010 02:38 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

[quote="G-Fafif":2nml284t]Outside the Big Budget realm, "Last Play at Shea," the Billy Joel concert film/Shea documentary is still in production, reliable sources tell me.[/quote:2nml284t] Weird that they're still chopping this together, while last summer's McCartney shows aired in slickly-produced fashion on ABC on Thanksgiving weekend.

G-Fafif Jan 06 2010 02:43 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

[quote="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr":3ibfy6fo][quote="G-Fafif":3ibfy6fo]Outside the Big Budget realm, "Last Play at Shea," the Billy Joel concert film/Shea documentary is still in production, reliable sources tell me.[/quote:3ibfy6fo] Weird that they're still chopping this together, while last summer's McCartney shows aired in slickly-produced fashion on ABC on Thanksgiving weekend.[/quote:3ibfy6fo] That was slick. But the Joel film is really more a documentary about Shea/Queens-L.I. (Billy's old stomping grounds and the times that birthed him and the ballpark) than strict concert film.

attgig Jan 06 2010 02:55 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

we should do our best to have a complete list and add it to shea's wikipedia entry

Edgy DC Jan 06 2010 03:05 PM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

That's the sort of legacy work I'm talking about.

TheOldMole Jan 07 2010 08:02 AM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

The Odd Couple, with my beloved Woodie Broun, remains my favorite Shea scene.

Ashie62 Jan 07 2010 08:17 AM Re: Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

[quote="G-Fafif"]Spoiler alert... The most important lesson of all, as Darryl now knows, is that all the superstar status in the world is only an empty honor -- unless you're also happy.

Harvey Keitel in "Bad Lieutenant' would agree